Wait a GD Minute There.....

[DCPatriot]

Wait a GD Minute There.....


In my house, it's not talk radio playing in the background.  Nope.

It's the Encore Western cable channel.  The black and white episodes of Cheyenne Bodie.  And Steve McQueen in Wanted: Dead or Alive.

Or Capt. Seth Adams (Ward Bond) in Wagon Train, with guest stars such as Bette Davis.

Sitting down watching episodes I'm sure Id seen as a younger lad, I was struck first by the courage and stamina of the People who built the interior and West... and their will to survive.

And then the other day, I caught only the last 4 minutes of TOMAHAWK.

In technicolor, it showed a procession/column of soldiers on horseback two by two, escorting a half-dozen covered wagons filled with civilians...as they abandoned a wooden high stockade fort, complete with barracks and stables and living quarters for officers, etc..

As they reach the top or the ridge and look back..they can see a couple of dozen Indians on horseback cantor into the fort.


....AND SET EVERYTHING ON FIRE!!

Bullsh*t, I thought.

It's Autumn, snow is coming, you'd rather live in a teepee house rather than a structure that would serve you for decades?

Uh-huh.

Political Correctness existed even back then too.

...for if I'm part of a circle of ten wagons in the middle of freaking nowhere and 50 savages on horseback or whooping and shooting arrows and maybe even guns??

Guess what?

They're gonna be walking home...because the FIRST and ONLY thing I'm aiming at are the HORSES.   Then you could pick off the little buggers one by one.     

[libertybele]

Wait a GD Minute There.....


In my house, it's not talk radio playing in the background.  Nope.

It's the Encore Western cable channel.  The black and white episodes of Cheyenne Bodie.  And Steve McQueen in Wanted: Dead or Alive.

Or Capt. Seth Adams (Ward Bond) in Wagon Train, with guest stars such as Bette Davis.

Sitting down watching episodes I'm sure Id seen as a younger lad, I was struck first by the courage and stamina of the People who built the interior and West... and their will to survive.

And then the other day, I caught only the last 4 minutes of TOMAHAWK.

In technicolor, it showed a procession/column of soldiers on horseback two by two, escorting a half-dozen covered wagons filled with civilians...as they abandoned a wooden high stockade fort, complete with barracks and stables and living quarters for officers, etc..

As they reach the top or the ridge and look back..they can see a couple of dozen Indians on horseback cantor into the fort.


....AND SET EVERYTHING ON FIRE!!

Bullsh*t, I thought.

It's Autumn, snow is coming, you'd rather live in a teepee house rather than a structure that would serve you for decades?

Uh-huh.

Political Correctness existed even back then too.

...for if I'm part of a circle of ten wagons in the middle of freaking nowhere and 50 savages on horseback or whooping and shooting arrows and maybe even guns??

Guess what?

They're gonna be walking home...because the FIRST and ONLY thing I'm aiming at are the HORSES.   Then you could pick off the little buggers one by one.     

I don't watch much TV these days, but I love Westerns!!  I didn't know there was a Western cable channel.

IMHO, one of the best:


www.youtube.com/watch?v=dc8glsGbIus

[libertybele]

Fort Apache ... another great!


www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FddFfcf8wk

[Cripplecreek]

Some indians adopted the white man's ways fairly readily.

One of my early 1600s ancestors was captured by indians twice as a child and rescued. When he became an adult he returned to live with the tribe and had them living in cabins in the Northeastern wilderness.

The Navajo did quite well in adopting things like raising livestock. Some tribes are bigger today than when the white man arrived. (The smart ones)

[libertybele]

Some indians adopted the white man's ways fairly readily.

One of my early 1600s ancestors was captured by indians twice as a child and rescued. When he became an adult he returned to live with the tribe and had them living in cabins in the Northeastern wilderness.

The Navajo did quite well in adopting things like raising livestock. Some tribes are bigger today than when the white man arrived. (The smart ones)

I have always been fascinated by the western plains Indian culture and way of life.  My hubby and I went to Colorado and stayed at a hotel in Grand Junction where they had an Indian head dress on display.  I fell in love with it!  For my birthday that year, my husband inquired as to where the hotel acquired the head dress and then ordered one and had it delivered.  It is one of my most prized possessions; it is an authentic Cheyenne war bonnet.  It's beautiful.

[corbe]

   They left the Fort to find their Scout, who would take care of that 'Indian' problem, unfortunately he was predisposed in town.

[berdie]

 Some tribes are bigger today than when the white man arrived. (The smart ones)
[/quote]

Yep...the smart ones adapted and own casinos and race tracks and sell cigarettes...and are whupping up on the white guys.